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Alan T. Levenson

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Description:An intellectual biography that reassesses one of the premier Jewish humanists of the mid-twentieth century In Maurice Samuel: Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian Alan T. Levenson recaptures the life, works, and milieu of the Romanian-born, English-educated, American belletrist Maurice Samuel. A diaspora intellectual—or a rooted cosmopolitan, as Levenson describes him—Samuel made an indelible mark on many features of contemporary Jewish thought and culture. A generalist in an age of experts, an independent scholar in an age of rabbis and professors, Samuel was one of the most productive and visible members of the group dubbed “The Other New York Jewish Intellectuals.” His fame as a public intellectual and popular speaker were well warranted: no mere popularizer, Samuel contributed significantly to four seemingly unrelated but critical areas of modern Jewish thought. Samuel is characterized by some as principally a Zionist, by others as an accomplished translator and many Americans’ first entrée into the world of Yiddish literature, by still others as a polemicist and campaigner against anti-Semitism, and finally as a media-savvy Biblical critic, essayist, and radio personality. But he was all of these things, since Samuel succeeded in an era when it was possible to be a public intellectual without being an expert. Drawing on Samuel’s vast literary opus, as well as previously unexplored archival material from three continents, this study writes Samuel back into the history of mid-twentieth century American letters. Levenson argues that Samuel’s varied and substantive contributions demand reconsideration of our assumptions about the means and ends of cultural transmission, and merit him a place as one of twentieth century American Jewry’s most significant cultural and intellectual voices. We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Maurice Samuel: Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian (Jews and Judaism: History and Culture). To get started finding Maurice Samuel: Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian (Jews and Judaism: History and Culture), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: An intellectual biography that reassesses one of the premier Jewish humanists of the mid-twentieth century In Maurice Samuel: Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian Alan T. Levenson recaptures the life, works, and milieu of the Romanian-born, English-educated, American belletrist Maurice Samuel. A diaspora intellectual—or a rooted cosmopolitan, as Levenson describes him—Samuel made an indelible mark on many features of contemporary Jewish thought and culture. A generalist in an age of experts, an independent scholar in an age of rabbis and professors, Samuel was one of the most productive and visible members of the group dubbed “The Other New York Jewish Intellectuals.” His fame as a public intellectual and popular speaker were well warranted: no mere popularizer, Samuel contributed significantly to four seemingly unrelated but critical areas of modern Jewish thought. Samuel is characterized by some as principally a Zionist, by others as an accomplished translator and many Americans’ first entrée into the world of Yiddish literature, by still others as a polemicist and campaigner against anti-Semitism, and finally as a media-savvy Biblical critic, essayist, and radio personality. But he was all of these things, since Samuel succeeded in an era when it was possible to be a public intellectual without being an expert. Drawing on Samuel’s vast literary opus, as well as previously unexplored archival material from three continents, this study writes Samuel back into the history of mid-twentieth century American letters. Levenson argues that Samuel’s varied and substantive contributions demand reconsideration of our assumptions about the means and ends of cultural transmission, and merit him a place as one of twentieth century American Jewry’s most significant cultural and intellectual voices. We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Maurice Samuel: Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian (Jews and Judaism: History and Culture). To get started finding Maurice Samuel: Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian (Jews and Judaism: History and Culture), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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